Lexical Variation and Knowledge Construction Across Historical, Methodological, and Cultural Ecologies.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Latorraca, Rossella.

Series:

Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice Series

Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice Series ; v.25

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and languages--Variation.

Language and languages.

Lexicology.

Genre:

Essays

Physical Description:

1 online resource (341 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2026.

Summary:

This collection provides a comprehensive examination of the intricate interplay between language and knowledge, viewing words not as mere vessels but as dynamic agents that sculpt our understanding of the world.

Contents:

Intro

Table of contents

Lexical variation and knowledge construction

Linguistic influence on (cultural) knowledge construction

Lexical variation in global contexts

Ecologies as variationist spaces

Structure of the Volume

Acknowledgements

References

Part I Knowledge construction over time

Terminological variation and change across the German translations of Lanfranc of Milan's Chirurgia parva

1. Introduction

2. Methodology

3. Results

3.1 Anatomical parts

3.2 Pathological conditions

3.3 Procedures, instruments, and remedies

3.4 Humoural theory

4. Discussion and conclusions

Contact-induced lexical variation and knowledge (re)construction

1.1 Socio-historical background of the research and Diaspora Serbian variety formation in the USA

3.1 Intra-language factors

3.2 Interlanguage factors and processes of lexical borrowing

Funding

Brazilian indigenous loanwords in Bluteau's Vocabulario portugues e latino

1.1 Portuguese national variants

1.2 European Portuguese

1.3 Brazilian Portuguese

2. Bluteau's Vocabulario Portuguez e Latino

2.1 Bluteau's sources for Amerindian loanwords

2.2 Bluteau's lexicographic method

3. Discussion and conclusions

Cawdrey's lexicographical practice

4.1 Their Listing of Words Also Listed in Cawdrey

4.2 Their Definitions of the Words

4.2.1 Similarities and differences

4.2.2 Meanings which their definitions are based on

4.3 Words Added to Them in Relation to Cawdrey

4.4 Conclusion

Dictionaries

Books and papers

Usury or interest?

1. Introduction.

2. Methodology

Part II Probing change

Quantifying lexical variation in Dutch

2. Case study 1

3. Case study 2

4. Case study 3

5. Case study 4

6. Conclusion

2. António de Morais Silva

2.1 António de Morais Silva and the foundations of Portuguese lexicography

2.2 The MORDigital project

2.3 The role of usage labelling in lexicographic tradition

3. Methodology

4. Results

5. Conclusions

Lessico Etimologico Italiano - Germanismi

2.1 Etymological research and LEI

2.2 Oldest borrowings

2.3 The study of Germanic words in the Lessico Etimologico Italiano

3. Results and discussion

3.1 Germanic layers

3.2 Germanic layers and criteria

3.3 Multiple layers

3.4 Frankish words

3.5 Germanic loanwords and LEI-Germ

4. Conclusions

Lexical variation across time and contact ecologies

1.1 The study of IndEng and AbEnglish in the UG framework

1.1.1 Background

2. Data

3. Method

4. Results and discussion

Lexical frequency effects on language variation

2. Methods

Own corpus frequency

British National Corpus (BNC)

SUBTLEXUK corpus

Stem frequency

Conditional frequency

Accessibility in public health

2.1 The data

2.1.1 The CDC Everyday Words for Public Health Communication

2.1.2 The Plain Language Medical Dictionary Application

2.2 Analytical tools and approaches

3.1 EW and PLMD

3.2 EW and PLMD

3.3 EW Original and Plain Language Sentences

Part III Clashes of wor(l)ds.

Disciplinary moulds and epistemological clashes

2. Epistemological awareness and standard variety (un)making

3. Conceptualizing standard varieties

4. Decolonizing Canadian English and dehegemonizing Austrian German

5. The "One Standard Axiom" for Austria and Canada: OSGA, OSEA and debunking "pluri-areality"

6. Dehegemonizing and decolonizing lexicography

Medical lexicon and gender ideologies in nineteenth-century British periodicals

Metaphoricide

1.1 Metaphors in science

1.2 The linguae francae of science

1.3 Murder, they wrote

1.4 Rationale and research questions

Metaphorical conceptualisations of inflation in English and Romanian

1.1 Theoretical framework

To get close to the inflation target

To enter a mild period

Morphemic phrasemes in German

1. Introduction and theoretical issues

3.1 Deutsches Universalwörterbuch Duden

3.2 Deutsche Idiomatik Pons

3.3 Deutsches Universalwörterbuch Duden and idiomaticity

Biographical notes

Index.

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ISBN:

90-272-4384-0

OCLC:

1590082459